Suit Challenges Feds’ Failure to Protect Rare Carnivore from Extinction
MISSOULA, MONT.—(ENEWSPF)—October 20, 2014. Today, a unique coalition of conservationists, animal welfare activists, hunters, anglers, and an ecologist sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) in U.S. District Court of Montana for refusing to protect rare wolverines from extinction under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Fewer than 300 wolverines remain in the contiguous United States.
Senior federal bureaucrats recently ordered the reversal of the…
